Heydar Aliyev - Justice for Journalists
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Heydar Aliyev

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: April 8, 2020

Attack type:

  • Attacks via judicial or economic means

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: podrobno.uz

Location: Uzbekistan, Tashkent

Additional information:

The judge argued that blogger Heydar Aliyev "demonstrated the neglect to the sanitary and epidemiological requirements, and also, using the obscene language, ridiculed the work of police officers, including work carried out during quarantine." The court sentenced Heydar Aliyev to seven days of administrative arrest for minor hooliganism.

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